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FO-nTTaX
Profile Blog Joined January 2013
Johto4984 Posts
Last Edited: 2017-03-18 03:14:30
March 18 2017 03:12 GMT
#1
I don't know why i wrote this down, I guess I'm mostly doing it for myself, so I don't expect anyone to read this. Don't read beyond here if you have anything better to do with your time really...

+ Show Spoiler +
Losing a loved one is hard, I knew that. It certainly isn't something anyone wants to experience, not me, not you, not the person you pass on the street. It is however not the worst thing in life. What is worse is having the feeling of not having been able to say goodbye. One day you have a good time with someone, the other day the person is gone. And there are so many loose ends, that you would have liked to tie up when you still had time.

But you didn't.

When i lost who was the most important person in my life seven years ago, i knew it was coming. I had accepted it. I was prepared and i had fixed all the things i had to fix. And still seven years later I can't forget.

And i lost another loved one. But now i live far from my family, far from all the people that are important for me. This time I didn't get the chance to say goodbye. This time i was not prepared, and this time it hit even harder. When i was visiting home at Christmas, everything seemed ok, and now I still haven't quite processed what happened. It is so similar, and yet so different to the last time, and all these memories are in my head as I write this.

A door is closed, and I won't be able to open it ever again, so many questions open, that won't ever have an answer. I wonder what could have been, and I'm trying not to forget what has been in the past. I'm trying to keep my good memories, yet it is so hard not to be overwhelmed by the sorrow.

I haven't been able to clear the bad things I said when we last met, and I'm sorry I said them in the first place, and I won't get the chance to do so, and it was to a good part my own fault. Would I not have been as stubborn, I could have made things good again, would I not have been so rude to just go away when you tried to clear it up with me, we could have talked it out, would I not have gotten into a fight about nothing we would have parted in good.

I know, such things always come unexpected, I know I'll eventually live with it, but it is still hard to accept it. It always is.

I'm sorry.


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BisuDagger
Profile Blog Joined October 2009
Bisutopia19351 Posts
March 18 2017 09:53 GMT
#2
Love you FO-nTTaX. <3
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Olli
Profile Blog Joined February 2012
Austria24422 Posts
March 18 2017 11:38 GMT
#3
You're a good man phonetax, I'm sorry for your loss. I hope you get better soon.
Administrator"Declaring anything a disaster because aLive popped up out of nowhere is just downright silly."
BigFan
Profile Blog Joined December 2010
TLADT24920 Posts
March 18 2017 14:13 GMT
#4
Rough, hang in there! Sorry for the loss
Former BW EiC"Watch Bakemonogatari or I will kill you." -Toad, April 18th, 2017
Torte de Lini
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
Germany38463 Posts
Last Edited: 2017-03-18 15:17:21
March 18 2017 15:17 GMT
#5
My condolences for your loss.
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Pandemona *
Profile Blog Joined March 2011
Charlie Sheens House51493 Posts
March 18 2017 17:34 GMT
#6
Hang in there totodile! Keep fighting on!
ModeratorTeam Liquid Football Thread Guru! - Chelsea FC ♥
dravernor
Profile Blog Joined May 2013
Netherlands6192 Posts
March 18 2017 18:36 GMT
#7
Sorry to hear Fo
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FlaShFTW
Profile Blog Joined February 2010
United States10402 Posts
March 18 2017 21:50 GMT
#8
We love you Fo <3 Stay strong. FIGHTING!
Writer#1 KT and FlaSh Fanboy || Woo Jung Ho Never Forget || Teamliquid Political Decision Desk
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StorrZerg
Profile Blog Joined February 2008
United States13919 Posts
March 19 2017 05:10 GMT
#9
More people read this than you might think, and i know its going to help me. Time can heal if you let it. stay strong.
Hwaseung Oz fan for life. Swing out, always swing out.
munch
Profile Joined July 2014
Mute City2363 Posts
March 19 2017 16:46 GMT
#10
take care, mate <3
WriterForm is temporary, MMA is permanent || http://www.teamliquid.net/blogs/508630-article-archive
darthfoley
Profile Blog Joined February 2011
United States8004 Posts
March 19 2017 22:28 GMT
#11
I'm very sorry to read this mate. I have been unbelievably unfortunate to be 22 years old and still not have lost anyone *really* close to. I read your first blog and I simply can't imagine what that felt like.

I hope you can take some solace in the fact that this loved one probably knows, in his/her heart that angry people often say things they truly don't mean. You could not have known it'd be the last time you'd see this person. I know it's easy to blame yourself, but it isn't your fault.

Hopefully stories like this make us all a little bit more understanding and a little bit more compassionate in difficult times. Cheers, my friend.
watch the wall collide with my fist, mostly over problems that i know i should fix
Maverick_2009
Profile Joined December 2014
Somewhere2002 Posts
March 20 2017 01:40 GMT
#12
Deepest condolences FO, we're behind you and we support you! Take care man...
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Djzapz
Profile Blog Joined August 2009
Canada10681 Posts
March 20 2017 03:23 GMT
#13
I just come on TL to cry now...

<3 much love
"My incompetence with power tools had been increasing exponentially over the course of 20 years spent inhaling experimental oven cleaners"
lestye
Profile Blog Joined August 2010
United States4208 Posts
March 20 2017 07:30 GMT
#14
I don't know what to say. My condolences, thanks for sharing your thoughts and feelings.

I think it's wonderful you got to meet someone so wonderful that made you feel this way. I know a lot of people who through their entire lives looking for such a person.
"You guys are just edgelords. Embrace your inner weeb desu" -Zergneedsfood
Seeker *
Profile Blog Joined April 2005
Where dat snitch at?37084 Posts
March 20 2017 12:42 GMT
#15
My condolences dude
Stay strong! You're awesome.
ModeratorPeople ask me, "Seeker, what are you seeking?" My answer? "Sleep, damn it! Always sleep!"
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Liquid`JunoTheCat
Profile Joined December 2014
Netherlands79 Posts
March 20 2017 17:21 GMT
#16
Sorry to hear it, Alex. We're all here for you <3
Team Liquid"Two things fill the heart with ever new and increasing admiration and awe: the starry skies above and the moral law within"
Archeon
Profile Joined May 2011
3265 Posts
Last Edited: 2017-03-20 18:36:37
March 20 2017 18:36 GMT
#17
My condolences. Guilt is a poison that always comes when you loose someone and it hurts all the more if it can't be denied easily. But at some point people just forgive, even when you don't put it right time eases things out. I'm sure the person you lost at some point made his/her peace with you. I'm sure he/she didn't hold a grudge.

Visit their graves, spend your time and thoughts, say what you would have liked to say. And then go slowly forward, as the person you lost would have wished.
low gravity, yes-yes!
peanuts
Profile Blog Joined May 2012
United States1225 Posts
March 21 2017 06:19 GMT
#18
Love ya FO. Condolences to you and wish you all the best in the recovery. <3
Writer"My greatest skill is my enjoyment of the game" - Grubby | @TL_Peanuts
fluidrone
Profile Blog Joined January 2015
France1478 Posts
Last Edited: 2017-03-21 08:05:20
March 21 2017 07:59 GMT
#19
If i may+ Show Spoiler +
The feeling of not being able to finish off "properly" before the person left is a fact of life.
i feel this feeling too and being a little older and having had several losses i just wanted to impart one little bit of information:
you can finish this, but you will finish it with someone else. We are wired to care about people and we do, but you should not wallow in sorrow over lost opportunities, you should thank life for all those experiences (that "revelation" that you don't get to finish everything you start) will make you stronger and able to finish some of those conversations, to send off some people properly or (fingers crossed in a long long long long time) you will try to send yourself off properly for the people you love to not get the sad/hurtful feeling you have right now (when you yourself leave your loved ones).
My condolences.. in my tribe, "dying" is going to live in the souls of the people that loved you.. so not only is that person still there, in you and in other people that loved him/her, but it is the best version of that person if you wish it to be.
All these other people and more to come are ready to finish those conversations with you, they are waiting for you.
life is imba and regret is the worst build order possible
"not enough rights"
JacktheTerr
Profile Blog Joined November 2016
United States97 Posts
March 21 2017 09:13 GMT
#20
im trying to deal with it forsure. ... i cant play icccup bc of cyka bylat i need help plz i fear that i never will play again i need guidance my trajectory is off

It's hard to stay sucker free in a world full of lollipops.
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